Hydraulic bricolages: coexisting water supply and access regimes in N’Djamena, Chad

This article investigates the ambivalent interconnectedness of water supply regimes of N’Djamena, the Chadian capital. Multiple water supply regimes coexist in N’Djamena and produce what I termed “hydraulic bricolages”. The article documents daily activities of the Technical Directorate of the Socié...

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Auteur principal:	Ismaël Maazaz
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Langue:	FR
Publié:	Pôle de Recherche pour l'Organisation et la diffusion de l'Information Géographique 2021
Sujets:	water regime bricolage Chad infrastructure urban studies Geography (General) G1-922
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:07eee4c9c1324529bbcb401a0a0558a92021-12-02T11:25:43ZHydraulic bricolages: coexisting water supply and access regimes in N’Djamena, Chad1963-119710.4000/echogeo.22514https://doaj.org/article/07eee4c9c1324529bbcb401a0a0558a92021-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/echogeo/22514https://doaj.org/toc/1963-1197This article investigates the ambivalent interconnectedness of water supply regimes of N’Djamena, the Chadian capital. Multiple water supply regimes coexist in N’Djamena and produce what I termed “hydraulic bricolages”. The article documents daily activities of the Technical Directorate of the Société Tchadienne des Eaux (Chad’s water national company, STE), insisting on limited available means and improvising methods that characterise hydraulic bricolages. The article then turns to alternative regimes, notably based on (cheap) water hand pumps and (costly) private boreholes. It qualifies the notion of “competing” sociotechnical regimes and stresses patterns of coexistence.Ismaël MaazazPôle de Recherche pour l'Organisation et la diffusion de l'Information Géographiquearticlewater regimebricolageChadinfrastructureurban studiesGeography (General)G1-922FREchoGéo, Vol 57 (2021)
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description	This article investigates the ambivalent interconnectedness of water supply regimes of N’Djamena, the Chadian capital. Multiple water supply regimes coexist in N’Djamena and produce what I termed “hydraulic bricolages”. The article documents daily activities of the Technical Directorate of the Société Tchadienne des Eaux (Chad’s water national company, STE), insisting on limited available means and improvising methods that characterise hydraulic bricolages. The article then turns to alternative regimes, notably based on (cheap) water hand pumps and (costly) private boreholes. It qualifies the notion of “competing” sociotechnical regimes and stresses patterns of coexistence.
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title	Hydraulic bricolages: coexisting water supply and access regimes in N’Djamena, Chad
title_short	Hydraulic bricolages: coexisting water supply and access regimes in N’Djamena, Chad
title_full	Hydraulic bricolages: coexisting water supply and access regimes in N’Djamena, Chad
title_fullStr	Hydraulic bricolages: coexisting water supply and access regimes in N’Djamena, Chad
title_full_unstemmed	Hydraulic bricolages: coexisting water supply and access regimes in N’Djamena, Chad
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Hydraulic bricolages: coexisting water supply and access regimes in N’Djamena, Chad

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